In Crawley Down, West Sussex, Nataliya De Kremer has been staying in touch with her aunt in Kyiv.

Ms De Kremer said: “There hasn’t been a single day that I haven’t cried because I’ve seen what’s going on in Ukraine, how many civilians are injured, how many children are injured. What have they done?”

“Last night it was twice that the sirens went off and they go to the cellar.”

Her aunt’s husband and son have joined the Ukrainian army, as has the husband of one of her cousins.

Her cousin has fled to Poland with her six year-old son, and Ms De Kremer has called on the UK government to make it easier for her to come to the UK and stay with her.

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